U.S steps up pressure on Myanmar as 50 more Rohingya’s go missing
U.S steps up pressure on Myanmar as 50 more Rohingya’s go missing: Bangladesh police has said that more than 50 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar have gone missing after their boat had capsized, the police added that 20 Rohingya’s have been confirmed dead, this has been followed by a new surge in the numbers of Rohingya’s fleeing Myanmar after the military started a campaign which took the total of fleeing Rohingya’s to more than half a million.
According to news the refugees had drowned in the heavy seas of Bangladesh on Thursday, conversely in New York the U.S Ambasssador to the United Nations Nikki Haley had called on different countries to stop providing Myanmar with weapons over violence against Rohingya Muslims.
This had been the first instance when the United states had called for the punishment of Myanmat’s military however the ambassador fell short of threatening to impose the earlier imposed sanctions on Myanmar which were suspended under the Obama administrations.
The accusations of ethnic cleansing along with the crimes against humanity have been rejected by the Budhist majority Myanmar, it has also denounced rights abuses.
A sweeping offensive had been launched by the Myanmar’s military in response to coordinated strikes on its security forces by Rohingya insurgents.
Arriving in Myanmar, Refugees have told of attacks by the military and Budhist vigilantes which had aimed to drive Rohingya out.
Antonio Guterres, the United Nations Secretary General told the Security Council that the ongoing violence in Myanmar had taken form into the “world’s fastest developing refugee emergency, a humanitarian and human rights nightmare”.
Border officials of Bangladesh have said that more refugees have arrived over the past couple of days after the number had seemed to be tailing off. According to aid groups 502,000 refugees had arrived in Bangladesh since the late August.
Colonel Anisul Haque who is the head of the Bangladeshi border guards in the town of Teknaf said “It stopped for a while but they have started coming again,” he added that approximately 1,000 people had landed at the main arrival point on the coast on Thursday.
The refugee boat that capsized went over in driving wind and rain and high seas. Police said 20 bodies had been recovered, 12 of them children, while 27 people survived and more than 50 were missing.
One of the survivor of the incident, Abdul Kalam 55, had said that at the least 100 people had been on board. He says his wife, two daughters and a grandson were among the dead.
According to Kalam Budhists who were armed had come to his village about a week ago and took away lifestyle and food. He added that villagers had been summoned to a military office and told that there were no such people as Rohingya in Myanmar.
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